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PART FOUR The rain started just after midnight on a quiet Tuesday in October. It began as a gentle tapping against the bedroom windowpanes. But within an hour, it turned …

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PART SIX Ten years is a long time to feel completely safe. But safety is a fragile and deceptive thing. It is like a thick pane of glass separating you …

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PART SEVEN Five years is a long time to let the dust settle. But dust has a way of finding the cracks in the floorboards. It was a crisp autumn …

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PART EIGHT The years that followed my father’s passing were not just peaceful. They were profoundly, beautifully ordinary. Ordinary is a word people often use to describe something boring. But …

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